Georg Lukács and Critical Theory : Aesthetics, History, Utopia / Tyrus Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Tyrus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frankfurt school of sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 269 pages)

Other Title:

Georg Lukács and Critical Theory

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh University Press 2023

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book examines the heritage of critical theory from the Hungarian Marxist philosopher Georg Lukács through the early Frankfurt School up to current issues of authoritarian politics and democratisation. Interweaving discussion of art and literature, utopian thought, and the dialectics of high art and mass culture, it offers unique perspectives on an interconnected group of left-wing intellectuals who sought to understand and resist their society's systemic impoverishment of thought and experience. Starting from Lukács's reflections on art, utopia, and historical action, it progresses to the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's analyses of music, media, avant-garde and kitsch. It concludes with discussions of erotic utopia, authoritarianism, postsocialism, and organised deceit in show trials - topics in which the legacy of Lukács and Frankfurt. School critical theory continues to be relevant today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: The Long Goodbye

PART I GEORG LUKÁCS

Chapter 2 Matthew, Mark, Lukács, and Bloch: From Aesthetic Utopianism to Religious Messianism

Chapter 3 Lukács's Theatres of History: Drama, Action, and Historical Agency

Chapter 4 The Non-Contemporaneity of Lukács and Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Art

PART II THEODOR W. ADORNO

Chapter 5 Adorno and/or Avant-Garde: Looking Back at Surrealism

Chapter 6 Avant-Garde and Kitsch, or, Teddy the Musical!

Chapter 7 Remediating Opera: Media and Musical Drama in Adorno and Kluge

PART III CRITICAL THEORY

Chapter 8 Perversion and Utopia: Sade, Fourier, and Critical Theory

Chapter 9 Interdisciplinary Legacies: Critical Theory and Authoritarian Culture

Chapter 10 Prophecies of Mass Deception: Dewey, Trotsky, and the Moscow Show Trials

Chapter 11 Tell-Trials, or, Gyuri the Radio Play

Index.

Notes:

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